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drowsy
/ ˈdraʊzɪ /
adjective
- heavy with sleepiness; sleepy
- inducing sleep; soporific
- sluggish or lethargic; dull
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Derived Forms
- ˈdrowsily, adverb
- ˈdrowsiness, noun
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Other Words From
- drowsi·ly adverb
- drowsi·ness noun
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Example Sentences
Casablancas speaks in a drowsy mumble and occasionally needs prodding, but once you do, becomes surprisingly engaged.
There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Barely 20 years ago, Brazil was a drowsy, underperfoming Third World nation, plagued by hyperinflation and boom-and-bust growth.
He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
He soon experienced an unwonted sense of fatigue, then a drowsy sensation came over him.
Ay, murmured the sick woman, relapsing into her former drowsy state, what about her?what aboutI know!
Dorothy began to feel drowsy, directly she had nothing left to engage her attention.
Fanchon's grandmother stirs up the drowsy fire; then she breaks the eggs on the black earthenware platter.
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